Konstantinos Fouzas Taking inspiration from recent US bombings on Iran’s nuclear sites, I remembered the early days of cyberwarfare in the region. You all know Stuxnet and how the US and Israel in a coordinated effort tried to end Iran’s nuclear program once and for all. Spoiler alert, they didn’t. To be fair, Stuxnet managed…
Many of the victims were Alawite, a minority community in Syria, which the former ruling Assad family belonged to. Some community members are believed to have been killed in March by forces or individuals loyal to the country’s new leadership, the National Transitional Authority, which is headed by interim President Ahmed Al-Sharaa. In response to…
In this moment of crisis, we need a unified, progressive opposition to Donald Trump. We’re starting to see one take shape in the streets and at ballot boxes across the country: from New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s campaign focused on affordability, to communities protecting their neighbors from ICE, to the senators opposing arms…
SP Global’s monthly GDP series is up (with prediction of flat GDP in Q3): Figure 1: Nonfarm Payroll from CES (bold blue), civilian employment with smoothed population controls (orange), industrial production (red), Bloomberg implied consensus as of 8/13 (red square), personal income excluding current transfers in Ch.2017$ (bold light green), manufacturing and…